Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...staff, the President approved plans for renovation of the long-abandoned White House clay tennis court, which will be maintained by surplus funds out of the White House mess. One restriction, laid down by Mamie Eisenhower: Players wearing shorts may not parade across the public lawn from the West Wing to the court, instead must use the nearby tool shed for a dressing room...
...Marseille, powerful left-wing Socialist Gaston Defferre, who has brought efficiency to his long mismanaged city, won revenge for the loss of his Assembly seat in November by polling more than four times as many votes for mayor as the U.N.R. In Lyon, Jacques Soustelle, the dynamic organizer of the U.N.R., ran a poor third after Radical Socialists and Communists. The one big U.N.R. victor was Jacques Chaban-Delmas, president of the National Assembly, who could point to an outstanding twelve-year record as mayor of Bordeaux...
...moved another stride toward the day when man will blast into space, and return, gliding through the atmosphere perhaps on red-hot wings to land at a chosen spaceport. At California's Edwards Air Force Base last week, a ponderous B-52 jet bomber lumbered down the runway, its engines spouting black smoke. From the rear it did not look right; it was lopsided, with a goodish-sized object hung unsymmetrically under its right wing. As the bomber broke ground, it listed slightly from the dragging weight...
...object tucked like a streamlined fledgling under the bomber's wing was North American's X-15 rocket-plane, designed as the U.S.'s first manned space vehicle. Leaving earth for the first time, it carried no fuel: Test Pilot Scott Crossfield, 38, was in the cockpit scanning a host of instruments that judged the performance of the mated bomber and X-15, whether they flew well together at all altitudes without dangerous yaw or buffeting. The first test, as the three watching chase planes and the two closed-circuit TV cameras in the B-52 confirmed...
...high school, Graney was a high scorer in the Bay State League. Two years ago he was starting center on the Freshman team, and last winter he played wing on the varsity's second line...